 | Samuel Roberts Wells - Phrenology - 1870 - 212 pages
...preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades ; It aids the dancer,s heel, the writer,s head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs." 5. ILLUSTRATVE EXAMPLES. — The French... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...squeaks in masquerades. Here to Steel's humor makes a bold pretence ; There, bolder, aims at Pultney's Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs. Edward... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...in masquerades. Here, to Steele's humour makes a bold pretence ; There, bolder, aims at Pulteney's And the twain were casting dice ; " The game is done...she, and whistles thrice. The sun's rim dips, the st sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs. Edward Young. — 'Born 1681, Died 1765.... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - Phrenology - 1874 - 200 pages
...'Tis Tory, Whig ; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades ; It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And...mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.17 5. ILLUSTRATVE EXAMPLES. — The French... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...squeaks in masquerades. Here to Steel's humour makes a bold pretence; There, bolder, aims at Pultney's , Fig'ring the nature of sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs. Young. 2793. PRAISE : not all of equal... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...O'er globes and sceptres, now on thrones it swells — Now trims the midnight lamp in college cells. It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And...mountains of the dead : Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs. hus conclude we our second evening's entertainment... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...in masquerades. Here, to Steele's humour makes a bold pretence ; There, bolder, aims at Pulteney's eloquence. It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dea/i : Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...pleads, There, bolder, aims at Pultcney's eloquence. It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's pretence; 10 f a mind exercised that way, are wonderfully quick; and a man used to such sort of refl sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our II. THE ESSAYISTS. SIR RICHARD STEELE. DICHAED... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - Physiognomy - 1890 - 776 pages
..."Tis Tory, Whig ; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades ; It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head. And...mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, . Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs." — YOUNG. Definition. — Love of praise... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - 1892 - 216 pages
...'Tis Tory, Whig ; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades; It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And...mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs." 5. ILLUSTRATVE EXAMPLES. — The French... | |
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O'er globes, and sceptres, now on thrones it swells ; Now; trims the midnight lamp in college cells : ?Tis tory, whig ; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades. 
